4 ✰✰✰ Complete the text with the correct active
or passive form of the verbs.
Did you know that millions of letters and parcels
0 are delivered
every day in the UK?
But how does a letter get from A to B?
Of course, first it
(write) and
then it 2
(put) in an envelope.
Then stamps 3.
(stick) on it and
it 4
(post) in a post box. A post
office worker 5
(collect) it and
6
(take) it to a sorting office.
Here, the letters?
ed
(sort) by
their postcodes. This 8
(do)
by a machine, but in the past it
(not do) by machine - the addresses
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into boxes for various destinations by hand.
Finally, the letters 11
(read) by people and put
(take) by road,
(give) the letters to deliver.
rail and air to their destination, where postal workers
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